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A Performance Analysis of Basin Hopping Compared to Established Metaheuristics for Global Optimization
Marco Baioletti, Valentino Santucci, Marco Tomassini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05877

A Performance Analysis of Basin Hopping Compared to Established Metaheuristics for Global Optimization
During the last decades many metaheuristics for global numerical optimization have been proposed. Among them, Basin Hopping is very simple and straightforward to implement, although rarely used outside its original Physical Chemistry community. In this work, our aim is to compare Basin Hopping, and two population variants of it, with readily available implementations of the well known metaheuristics Differential Evolution, Particle Swarm Optimization, and Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution …

Daily Inspiration: "World-class innovators refuse to accept the way things were" - Futurist Jim Carroll
How do you become a world-class innovator? Not someone who merely pokes around the edges of innovative thinking and explores a few ideas here and there, but someone who truly tries to infuse the mindset of everything you do, or into every goal and action that your organization pursues.
I head to Orlando tomorrow, where I've got a repeat engagement with a client; t…

Daily Inspiration: Mastering Innovation – “World class innovators refuse to accept the way things were.”

“Another problem I had with all my folder full o’ posts strategy was that I didn’t know whether a post was nearly done or a scrap of an idea. I was lost. Every two months or so I’d have to click through each file to repopulate my memory buffer with the statuses of each post. […]
I needed a tool to make sense of those words. […]
It’s overkill, but it’s my overkill, and I love it.”
@…

My Notion Blogging Kanban
Six years ago, I started a good blogging habit of writing down any idea I had as a draft post. This was a good practice because the idea was now out of my head and I wouldn’t stay up at night thinking about it. Over time that grew to about eighty posts in different states of completeness and it became overwhelming. 16,000+ words, terribly organized.

Cosmology with shear ratios: a joint study of weak lensing and spectroscopic redshift datasets
Ni Emas, Chris Blake, Rossana Ruggeri, Anna Porredon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07313

Cosmology with shear ratios: a joint study of weak lensing and spectroscopic redshift datasets
The ratio of the average tangential shear signal of different weak lensing source populations around the same lens galaxies, also known as a shear ratio, provides an important test of lensing systematics and a potential source of cosmological information. In this paper we measure shear ratios of three current weak lensing surveys -- KiDS, DES, and HSC -- using overlapping data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey. We apply a Bayesian method to reduce bias in shear ratio measurement,…

Bayesian Preference Elicitation with Language Models
Kunal Handa, Yarin Gal, Ellie Pavlick, Noah Goodman, Jacob Andreas, Alex Tamkin, Belinda Z. Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05534

Bayesian Preference Elicitation with Language Models
Aligning AI systems to users' interests requires understanding and incorporating humans' complex values and preferences. Recently, language models (LMs) have been used to gather information about the preferences of human users. This preference data can be used to fine-tune or guide other LMs and/or AI systems. However, LMs have been shown to struggle with crucial aspects of preference learning: quantifying uncertainty, modeling human mental states, and asking informative questions. These challe…

Daily Inspiration: "World-class innovators refuse to accept the way things were" - Futurist Jim Carroll
How do you become a world-class innovator? Not someone who merely pokes around the edges of innovative thinking and explores a few ideas here and there, but someone who truly tries to infuse the mindset of everything you do, or into every goal and action that your organization pursues.
I head to Orlando tomorrow, where I've got a repeat engagement with a client; t…

Daily Inspiration: Mastering Innovation – “World class innovators refuse to accept the way things were.”

Dear Orin,
This is because the Fed Soc judges you love so much are deeply corrupt.
Are you ready yet to admit your conservative legal movement has long been captured by billionaires who train, identify, select, and install bad judges to serve billionaires’ interests?

Gestern Nacht war Tochter mit Freundin aus. Ich hatte ihr gesagt, dass ich sie abhole bzw im Zweifelsfall (ich war ziemlich müde) ein Taxi spendiere.
Um drei Uhr rief sie an. Taxi war keines zu bekommen, ebensowenig wie ein Uber.
Also schwang ich mich aus dem Bett und machte mich auf den Weg. Die ganze Zeit, während ich unterwegs war, und die beiden vor dem Club auf mich warteten, hielten wir telefonischen Kontakt. Deshalb bekam ich mit,
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Bayesian Preference Elicitation with Language Models
Kunal Handa, Yarin Gal, Ellie Pavlick, Noah Goodman, Jacob Andreas, Alex Tamkin, Belinda Z. Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05534

Bayesian Preference Elicitation with Language Models
Aligning AI systems to users' interests requires understanding and incorporating humans' complex values and preferences. Recently, language models (LMs) have been used to gather information about the preferences of human users. This preference data can be used to fine-tune or guide other LMs and/or AI systems. However, LMs have been shown to struggle with crucial aspects of preference learning: quantifying uncertainty, modeling human mental states, and asking informative questions. These challe…